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Lookee here. We’ve got a couple of hardback copies of Valve’s book, Half-Life 2: Raising The Bar, signed by Valve top-dog Gabe Newell. Would you like one?

In order to receive one of these rather weighty tomes, we want to see your own local City 17. Let us explain…

Everyone lives near at least one building, or one patch of ground, that looks like the haunted remains of an apocalyptic attack. We want a photograph of the most derelict, wartorn, or ravaged-by-age locale near you. The two best, as judged by our highly trained eyes, will receive a signed book.

Email your entries to here. Keep photos under 200k, or you’ll break our email accounts. Or if you want to go high-res, upload it somewhere and email us the link. Closing date is October 10th. Get snapping.

(Rules: One photo per person – multiple entries will be ignored. The photo must be your own work – we have seen every photograph on the internet, and will know if you’re cheating. Real photos, no Photoshops. Don’t change the competition entry email subject line, even if you think it’s to something that will make us laugh until we’re sick. RPS’s decision is not only right, but final. We reserve the right to publish any photographs sent to us. If we ever see the books appear on eBay, we’ll post you our poo every day for the rest of your life)

Funnily enough, I actually live not far from where they filmed Mad Max. You can still go visit the car (its gone to crap nowadays though), and the Thunderdome from Mad Max 3 (To this day, I still don’t understand why Tina Turner was in it).

On a side note, I think some runners up should receive some Fallout-y type prizes :D

So, no post-processing editing is permitted in Photoshop either? Many professional digital photographers use histograms for colour correction and apply touch ups and so on to their pictures to enhance the work.

Fair enough if those are your rules, but how will you be able to tell if digital images have been touched up?